Our understanding of resource efficiency
Natural resources provide the energy and raw material for living. And mankind is constantly overexploiting the ecological capacities of our earth. Thus there are many potential areas of intervening against the overconsumption of resources in our daily life. But there is no “one-size-fits-all approach”. In this wide field the PRESOURCE partners from 6 Central European countries decided to focus on a narrow but important subarea: SMEs from the manufacturing sector. In this context we understand resource efficiency as: Reducing the use and the costs of energy, material and water in the production process and product life cycle.